kenotomeo inc.

American Competitiveness through American Innovation.

Kenotomeo’s Mission

To promote our nation’s economic competitiveness in the global economy by promoting our nation’s innovation.

About Us

Bruce Bockmann, Director:

Bruce R. Bockmann was co-founder and chairman of TechSpace, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Enfrastructure in May 2002. Bruce is a member of the New York New Media Association Angel Investor Group and a director of the Harvard Business School Club of New York's New Media Initiative. From 1967 to 1992, he was an international investment banker with Morgan Stanley Group. Among his positions, he was managing director of Global Privatization, chairman and managing director of Morgan Stanley Australia Ltd. and managing director of Project Financing and Leasing. Bruce is a graduate of Bowdoin College and has a master's degree from Harvard Business School.

Clare Fairfield, Director:

Clare Fairfield is a Managing Director of Concerto Advisors, Inc. Mr. Fairfield has over 20 years of entrepreneurial management and business development experience, including founding and managing businesses, venture capital investing, entrepreneurial education and providing legal advice to start-up and existing companies.

Mr. Fairfield is a founding General Partner and a Managing Director of Concerto Venture Partners, a diversified, early-stage focused venture firm; and, a General Partner and past Managing Director of AAVIN Venture Capital, a sector and stage diversified venture capital/private equity fund. Within these firms Mr. Fairfield's responsibilities included and include: fund raising; sourcing deal flow; negotiating the acquisition, financing and disposition of portfolio investments; sitting on the boards of individual portfolio companies and overseeing their growth; managing staffing needs and making compensation decisions; and making portfolio investment determinations as an investment committee member.

From 1996 through 1998, Mr. Fairfield served as Associate Director of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Iowa. Since 1998, the Iowa Program has been ranked as one of the top 35 entrepreneurial programs in the country. During Mr. Fairfield's tenure, the Iowa program became the first program in the nation to offer an Engineering Certificate in Entrepreneurship. From 1989 through 1993 Mr. Fairfield practiced business and tax law while overseeing the operation of the tax department of Davis & Kuelthau, S.C., a full-service private law firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1986 through 1989 Mr. Fairfield was associated with the law firm of Stanley, Lande & Hunter, P.C, where he provided services to clients ranging from start-up ventures to Fortune 500 companies. Since 1983, Mr. Fairfield has been involved as an entrepreneur and/or as an investor with the start-up, acquisition and/or development of companies in the communications, information technology, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, medical device, software, construction and real estate industries.

Mr. Fairfield serves as Chairman of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies (NASBIC) Education Committee and Chairs the Venture Capital Institute. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of NASBIC and is a past member of the Executive Committee of NASBIC. Clare has frequently served as a judge and as chairman of the selection panel for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program. He serves as a member of the Venture Capital Commercialization Review Panel for the National Science Foundation and was a charter member of the MidAmerica Healthcare Investor Network. Mr. Fairfield is Co-Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum Committee on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. He is a member of the National Venture Capital Association, NASBIC, the Regional Association of Small Business Investment Companies, and the Wisconsin Bar Association. Mr. Fairfield is a frequent speaker on the topics of innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurial activities.

Mr. Fairfield received a BBA in Accounting, JD, and MBA from the University of Iowa. While at the University of Iowa, he was designated a Tippie Scholar, a School of Accounting Faculty Scholar, a University of Iowa Undergraduate Scholar, a College of Law Scholar and was a College of Business Rhodes Scholarship Nominee. In 1997, he was named a Price-Babson Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston.

Joe Hadzima, Director:

Joseph G. Hadzima, Jr. is a Managing Director of Main Street Partners LLC, a venture development and technology commercialization firm. He currently serves as President of IPVision, Inc., a Main Street Partners portfolio company, which provides corporate enterprises with systems, tools and services for the analysis, development and management of intellectual property.

He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global MIT Enterprise Forum (http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu). He practiced law for 17 years, first at Ropes & Gray in Boston and then at Sullivan & Worcester as director of the High Tech/New Ventures Group, where he was involved in various capacities in the founding of over 100 companies and advised entrepreneurs, high-growth businesses and venture capitalists. He is also a Director of the New England chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Hadzima started teaching at MIT Sloan School of Management in 1984. He was a founding judge of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. With the support of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, he organizes and coordinates the the Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans, a popular IAP course. He also co-developed The Manager's Legal Function course, in which he has been lecturing since 1984. He is a frequent speaker for the MIT Enterprise Forum's Satellite Broadcast Series (SBS). In recent SBS presentations he has spoken about company valuation and structuring venture capital deals. Reprints from Hadzima's popular Boston Business Journal column, "Starting Up," are available. Mr. Hadzima received his S.B and S.M in Management degrees from M.I.T and a juris doctore cum laude from Harvard Law School.